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William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;Within Christian nationalism, any attempt to share or distribute power is anathema. This places folks who embrace Christian nationalism in direct opposition to the foundational principles of any pluralistic democratic system or society.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TheoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheoBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Project2025</span></a><br />/7</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;I think the key idol of Christian nationalism is power, and specifically, a self-interested power. Power is the ability to get others to do what you want despite their resistance. ... Christian nationalism is intent on gaining and defending access to power that only serves &#39;us,&#39; the in-group of &#39;right&#39; Christians.&quot;</p><p>~ Andrew Whitehead</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TheoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheoBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Project2025</span></a><br />/6</p><p><a href="https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/christians-will-have-power-and-other" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p</span><span class="invisible">/christians-will-have-power-and-other</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Another very valuable information resource to understand the confluence of Christian nationalism, the theocratic aspirations of the TheoBros (and hard-right Catholics), oil money, TechBros, and the Republican party now is David Pepper&#39;s series on Trump and Vance&#39;s Project2025. </p><p>As a hard-right Catholic convert virtually owned by TechBro Thiel, Vance is a personal point of intersection.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TheoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheoBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Project2025</span></a><br />/5</p><p><a href="https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/podcast-the-reviews-are-in" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">davidpepper.substack.com/p/pod</span><span class="invisible">cast-the-reviews-are-in</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>If you want to get a better angle on the TheoBros, who are a right-wing exclusively male group of young Calvinists with theocratic aspirations for the nation, you&#39;ll perhaps find this Mother Jones video enlightening. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TheoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheoBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <br />/4</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK9S5YxJfE" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=hrK9S5YxJf</span><span class="invisible">E</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;What do TechBros and TheoBros have in common with Trump and his inner circle? All think their respective causes will be better served by ending American democracy. They want a strongman at top—their strongman. To hell with democracy, and with the rest of us.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TheoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheoBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <br />/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;What we are witnessing right now is an ever widening network—not just the TheoBros and Trump’s inner circle, but both of these networks now interlinked with the power of tech billionaires. That means we’ve got old-school oil money flowing together with 21st-century tech money, a nearly bottomless source of funds on hand to advance this agenda.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TheoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheoBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;To understand what’s happening in America today and what’s on the ballot this November, you need to pay attention to shifting coalitions. What we’re seeing right now is a strengthening and expanding coalition between Christian nationalists, tech billionaires, and Trump’s inner circle.&quot;</p><p>~ Kristin Du Mez</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TheoBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheoBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechBros</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <br />/1</p><p><a href="https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/theobros-techbros-and-trump" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kristindumez.substack.com/p/th</span><span class="invisible">eobros-techbros-and-trump</span></a></p>
MylesRyden<p>With this in mind, this is how I see the world working right now...</p><p>The Billionaire Class, literally fueled by fossil fuels, wants to avoid all accountability and keep the party going as long as they can for themselves, which means a very short term outlook.</p><p>First having stripped the Global South of their natural resources and now having made their countries unlivable (poverty and climatically) have used the necessity of those people moving to the north as a cudgel to make the Global South even worse.</p><p>Psychology tells us that loss aversion is much more powerful than the pull of possible gain. They are playing that card powerfully with the middle class convincing them the people "below them" are coming to take their suburban lawns.</p><p>In reality of course, it is the Billionaire Class that continues to take all the money. And burn up the planet. Driving more immigration. Driving more right wing politics.</p><p>Until we are all dead.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/rightwingExtremists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rightwingExtremists</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/oilmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oilmoney</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> </p><p>*********<br>1 | By the nuts: Russia's attack on the 2016 election | Patreon</p><p><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/1-by-nuts-attack-105198771" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">patreon.com/posts/1-by-nuts-at</span><span class="invisible">tack-105198771</span></a></p>
FunGuy2PlayWith<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WaPo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaPo</span></a> What <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> promised Oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GiftedArticle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftedArticle</span></a> <br><a href="https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/3UBf4Fy</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;And even if there is no direct assistance from foreign governments to help him make good on these judgments, Trump will spend the next few years trying to dig out from the financial hole they left. And that means foreign bad actors will come circling.</p><p>This can and should become a serious campaign issue, especially given how both the Saudis and Putin are confirmed murderous authoritarians that throw their petrol dollars around to buy influence.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Saudis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Saudis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;The judgments leave Trump vulnerable financially, which in turn means he is a prime target for foreign influence. In fact, this is likely how the Russians got their fingers into everything in Trumpland in the first place, back when he needed bailing out before.&quot;</p><p>~ Jay Kuo</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Putin</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Saudis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Saudis</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OilMoney</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>criminal</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a><br />/1</p><p><a href="https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/status-report-the-trump-judgments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">statuskuo.substack.com/p/statu</span><span class="invisible">s-report-the-trump-judgments</span></a></p>
Mikal<p>Get your point <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@peachfront" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>peachfront</span></a></span> , but at least in Norway we are good at pretending our emissions don’t matter<br><a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/oilmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oilmoney</span></a></p>
Sean Boyer 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE<p>NL's plan: spend millions of dollars/several years on hopefully developing tech that doesn't exist yet, to store "up to" 1GT of carbon emissions (4% of global annual) from <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gas</span></a>.</p><p>This stuff is a waste of time. Any "solution" that encourages the burning of <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/fossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossilFuels</span></a>, is contributing to our demise.</p><p>We need to focus on <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/offShoreWind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>offShoreWind</span></a>, <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/onShoreWind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onShoreWind</span></a>, <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> and <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/hydrogen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hydrogen</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/atlanticCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atlanticCanada</span></a> is focusing on ALL the wrong paths, because <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/oilMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oilMoney</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/noOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noOil</span></a> <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/noBillionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noBillionaires</span></a> <a href="https://fed.sbcloud.cc/tags/climateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climateCrisis</span></a></p>
Fotbollssmurfen :verigold:<p>The football world goes wild. In fact, it's just two Arab nations competing in who has the most money. Football these days 😞 <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/oilmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oilmoney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/football" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>football</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/soccer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soccer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/mastodonfc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodonfc</span></a></p>
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